For the Love of Eden

2025-10-20

I love Eden (The Game Eve Online)

I should thank "Midatouch" for twisting my arm to return to the game.

Once upon a time, I had a hand in one of the most loved Alliances. But I didn't like the power projection at the time; spoilt the game for a lot of people. Also didn't like the depth of leadership structure, it made smaller specialist Corps seem like they had little to no voice. I believe in people and a game I love.

I am a REAL person Alexander Outten 55, live in the South of England, character "Bones Outten". I suffer emotions at the bad or horrible outcomes/decisions of a game I have loved for two decades. I am too old now to be running a full on Alliance all on my lonesome. I have met some amazing people over the past 20 years in Game and in RL. I have also met some Nasty people in Game and in RL (Names not to be shared).

Whether CCP want to milk the game for cash has been proven years ago. The things we fought against have passed years ago, PayToWin has been running for some years, buy SP etc. Even with all the cash milking by CCP, they are a business and I understand this. My fear has been growing that CCP on the one hand need cash to survive, but on the other the methods they have used are causing gameplay changes going back to the days of Old and players are leaving, this will cost us our favourite Game and that makes me sad.

Some of the very old, very honest and very nice players of the past two decades have the same fears and when they poke their heads into the game they say the same things. Who would we ally with, there's no Alliance that aligns with the love of the game and the friendships that have been engendered over the decades.

Never held love for GSF with their strict policies and acting like an over-powered player base (Although Asher is the best thing to happen to GSF for a long time)
Never had love for PanFam/Test, as they had pretty much the same rules in a slightly different guise to GSF.

I never liked rules that affected a game that I pay to play. ie: you should have n Alpha/Omega accounts, as this fully excludes people on the new player experience or in my case having to log into a free account disabling the account I pay for.

Never liked Sov mechanics in ANY format and I don't ever see a way of fixing that. Freeport is the way to go.

Never liked the idea of being able to be ganked in HS, as new player this is brutal and for some old players CODE, Hulkageddon etc. should never have been possible in HS

But my biggest bugbear is: as a new player there's no safe place to go from the start and no one to look to for trust, Eve Uni is/was a pretty good attempt.

Aura is a nice addition by CCP, but I've always learnt more from real players than the game NPCs. Concorde it a terrible mechanic and standings don't fix this, we need a proper police force ran by people who love and are in the game, somehow need to hobble concording our police force.

Anyway, to the point. We need an Alliance that makes sense WITHOUT a single CEO, so no single point of failure.

Political structure:

Safety: Alliance will contain additional single char corps to hold control of Alliance.

Founders: Starting at 3 to be grown to 5. Permanent sitting rights (with a possibility of a single rogue Founder being voted out to prevent the obvious).

Guest Leadership: up to 11 promoted in pairs to stop deadlock (Real ppl not chars, to stop someone having 11 chars running the Alliance under one person) NEVER an even number, voted in by Corps by interaction/value/worth. Voted per 6 months initially, maximum n terms in office, before promotion to founders or removal to Admin level.

Admin/Advisory level: flexible 21-51 people voted in by ESI gated accounts (1 vote per account, to be decided, likely CCP style vote). 6 monthly to start, growing to Yearly voting, NO maximum term in office. This level should be able to overturn a decision made by Leadership with a majority vote (95% vote, but not form their own)

Funding: To be decided.

Ideals:
No one person, Character or Entity should have the keys to the whole Alliance.
No declaring War period, although being war'decd will be the norm (Don't need another Goons or PH in Game).
No renting space, funding TBD.

Transparency: Full transparency Leadership to Admin, Admin to Corp, Corp to player base.
Except OPSEC: ie. SRP Wallet, CovOps, Hot Drops.

OUR Farming/Farmers. Remember Rome, should be protected AT ALL TIMES in ALL AREAS of space HS/LS/Null/Poch/WH, whether the style be Anoms/Mining/Missons. Policed per 3 Light Year Force (no over extension) FULL SRP for Police force, EVEN for handling Gankers in HS.

Glossary:
BoB Band of Brothers, rather large historical Alliance.
CCP Crowd Control Productions under the ownership or Pearl Abyss (All CCP game,objects and name rights aknowledged)
Char Character in game one of three possible on each account
Eden The game space in Eve Online.
ESI Electronic Secure Interface to Eve Online API for Game information.
Eve (Eve Online) a game property owned by CCP
GSF/GSW (Goons) Goon Swarm Federation or Goon Swarm Waff, Imperium.
HS High security > 0.5
LS Low security space security >0.0 < 0.5
NS (Null) Null security space below 0.0 see TS
Poch (Pocheven) Trigvalian triangle in the middle of Map Filimant entry/exit, no Cap entry/exit.
RL Real Life, that which we escape in Eve online.
Toon See Char.
TS True security level on space.
WH (WHs) Wormhole space.

Revision:
Initial draft: AAO 2025-10-20
Last edit: AAO 2025-10-22
Last edit: AAO 2025-11-09 (Input Midastouch)

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